UFC’s early 2018 event schedule includes ‘Fight Night’ cards in St. Louis and Charlotte

The UFC announce its event schedule for the first three months of 2018, and it’ll be a busy start to the new year, as usual. A total of nine cards will be staged over twelve weeks, with three of them on pay-per-view.

It’s the first time the the UFC has ever staged a card in St. Louis, having previously made its debut in Missouri at UFC on FOX 24 in Kansas City this past April. Their Charlotte show marks the promotion’s first trip to the city since Kenny Florian defeated Takanori Gomi in 2010. Neither Belem nor Perth had ever hosted a UFC show before, so those two international cities will get the chance to do so in February.

Fight announcements for all of those shows will be made in the coming weeks.